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roomful

American  
[room-fool, room-] / ˈrum fʊl, ˈrʊm- /

noun

  • roomfuls
    plural
  1. an amount or number sufficient to fill a room.


roomful British  
/ ˈruːmfʊl, ˈrʊm- /

noun

  1. a number or quantity sufficient to fill a room

    a roomful of furniture

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of roomful

First recorded in 1700–10; room + -ful


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He explained before the cameras and a roomful of reporters the rationale for the interest-rate increase and the central bank’s plan from here on out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

“Everyone make some noise,” the jubilant Johnson told the roomful of reporters afterward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026

He even flirts with advocating for marriage equality after meeting with Sharon Stone, although he doesn’t admit that in her presence, and with a roomful of priests bearing witness.

From Salon ● May 10, 2025

He likens the effect of these chemicals on water-born bacteria to offering hungry humans a roomful of fattening fast food.

From BBC ● May 10, 2025

It would take a roomful of Shakespeares to replace them with fresh figures of speech, and before long those would become cliches too.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

It was presented as tough medicine to the city, as well as to roomfuls of shouting parents so angry that at times they were restrained by security.

From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2024

In turn, Moore clearly has developed that thing often present in, say, military children: the capacity to go comfortably into roomfuls of strangers.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2022

This year, police officers confiscated roomfuls of expensive goods, including bottles of Château Pétrus, among the world’s most expensive wines, and a $3.7 million clock.

From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2012

The new residents set to work, removing roomfuls of rubble wheelbarrow by sweaty wheelbarrow, unspooling electrical wiring, laying pipes and installing a boiler, ceilings and walls.

From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2011

And yet, the house did seem to have filled itself, to have drawn out of the family roomfuls of activity.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

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